White flags flying from Brooklyn Bridge, cops probe breach

[donnay]

White flags flying from Brooklyn Bridge, cops probe breach


By Natasha Velez and Larry Celona

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Photo: Anderson / Splash News

In a stunning security breach, the giant American flags at the top of both sides of the Brooklyn Bridge were replaced by white flags overnight, cops said.

The two new flags appear to be American flags that were painted over white — the traditional symbol for “surrender” — and were flying Tuesday morning from both towers.


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[erowe1]

Are the white flags the same size as the usual American ones? If so, maybe all they did was fly one of these drones up there and paint those very same American flags white?

[NorfolkPCSolutions]

Dimes to dollars, it was "performance art." If that's the case, I think I like it. Most Americans have willingly surrendered their liberty, and regardless of what the meaning is, or who did it, or how it was done, there is one certainty in this: neither NYPD stop and frisk operations, TSA patdowns, or "enhanced security" stopped someone (or a group of someones) from climbing a series of ladders and putting something atop the Brooklyn Bridge.

Could have been something more...explosive...than "performance art." And all the security theater in the world can do nothing to prevent that.

[donnay]

A Mysterious White Flag Is Flying From the Brooklyn Bridge

Did New York City surrender? And if so, to whom? That’s what everyone is asking this morning after pictures on social media revealed that two unexplained white flag was flying from the top of each of the Brooklyn Bridge’s two towers where American flags usually sits. At exactly 11:00 a.m., the flag on the Manhattan side of the bridge was taken down, but investigators are still unsure how it got there.

Some people on Twitter joked that it may have to do with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s eight-day family vacation in Italy, while others thought maybe Starbucks had finally taken control of the city.

Gothamist reports that those close enough can see that the flag is actually an American flag that has either been painted white or bleached. An ABC News live stream of the white flag blowing in the wind at the top of the Brooklyn Bridge shows men on nearby investigating:



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[Dianne]

Dimes to dollars, it was "performance art." If that's the case, I think I like it. Most Americans have willingly surrendered their liberty, and regardless of what the meaning is, or who did it, or how it was done, there is one certainty in this: neither NYPD stop and frisk operations, TSA patdowns, or "enhanced security" stopped someone (or a group of someones) from climbing a series of ladders and putting something atop the Brooklyn Bridge.

Could have been something more...explosive...than "performance art." And all the security theater in the world can do nothing to prevent that.

Yeah, that's really the oddest story I've heard yet. That bridge has non stop 24/7 traffic and it's unbelievable no one saw anything. I would love to know the perp's meaning.

[VIDEODROME]

Maybe it's just bird $#@!

[JK/SEA]

one of our founders got tired of rolling over in his grave, and he finally got out, and got up there and raised it....

[Anti Federalist]

one of our founders got tired of rolling over in his grave, and he finally got out, and got up there and raised it....

Thus endeth, this thread...

[NorfolkPCSolutions]

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[donnay]

I also think this could be a way to get TSA on the Bridges now. Because it was a security breach...blah, blah, blah...

[Czolgosz]

Final lap, perhaps?

[pcosmar]

cops probe breach

That is always disconcerting.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Suggest to grab attention and a message into the coconuts of the created United States of Idiocracy should of been this flag:

[Acala]

The white flag doesn't mean surrender. It calls for a hiatus in hostilities. It may lead to surrender, but not necessarily. It might lead to negotiations and peace.

[donnay]

SMDH.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Deputy Intelligence Director Miller: "A good deal of pre-operational planning, perhaps ah, indications they have experience climbing, in construction, in bridge work."

AP: As operations commerce to remove the flags 'Unfolded' there were little sense of danger.

Ugh these morons... Are you $#@!tin me? This is how the state and media report this?

No mention of the white flags symbolizing "TRUCE" aka "Stop Violence", most likely reflecting either NYPD brutality or foreign policy disasters "Ukraine, Israel/Gaza, et al...?

Nope, corporate media is reporting this all as, what is going on in New York City with all these secure sites being compromised/security breeches?

SMDH.

[phill4paul]

They've been given the chance. Might not be too long before the black flag is raised if they do not begin to heed the warnings.

[Uriel999]

white flags are flags of the Taliban...omg they have invaded and claimed brooklyn!

[osan]

white flags are flags of the Taliban...omg they have invaded and claimed brooklyn!

Let them have it.

[jbauer]

white flags are flags of the Taliban...omg they have invaded and claimed brooklyn!

Curious if they could swing into TN and claim Memphis? Do they have a 800 number that I could call to make a request?

[Pericles]

white flags are flags of the Taliban...omg they have invaded and claimed brooklyn!

LMAO

[TN_VOL]

It would have been more appropriate if they had just turned the American flag upside down as a sign of distress.

[JK/SEA]

It would have been more appropriate if they had just turned the American flag upside down as a sign of distress.

good point...if it had been a true Patriot, thats what would have happened...makes me go hmmmm..

[Carlybee]

white flags are flags of the Taliban...omg they have invaded and claimed brooklyn!

I thought those were hipsters

[donnay]

Or basically put up the Gadsden flag.

[PaulConventionWV]

It would have been more appropriate if they had just turned the American flag upside down as a sign of distress.

Wouldn't have been very noticeable.

[fisharmor]

If someone figured out how to get all the dye to fade uniformly after a specified time, then there needn't have been a security breach at all. The flag could have been injected into their flag-replacement process anywhere by anyone.

[zert]

After 911 we conformed to the requests of our perpetrators. We continue to surrender our freedoms. They wanted the US to change, and we obliged.

[donnay]

Update:

NYPD’s Miller: No Likely Terror Connection In Brooklyn Bridge White Flag Placement

American flags were once again flying on top of the Brooklyn Bridge Tuesday afternoon, after someone replaced the flags sometime overnight with what appeared to be whitewashed or faded versions of Old Glory.

NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller said police do not believe the incident was connected to any terror threat.

Miller said as of around 8:30 p.m. Monday, the American flags were still flying on the Brooklyn and Manhattan towers of the bridge. But around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, construction workers noticed the white flags had taken their place.

Surveillance video revealed that around 3:10 a.m., several people were seen crossing the bridge – four or five of them in a group. Several minutes later, the light that normally illuminates the American flag on the Brooklyn side of the bridge flickered and went out, Miller said.

About 12 minutes after that, the light on the Manhattan side of the bridge also went out, he said.

By 7:30 a.m. Monday, calls about the rogue flags were coming in to police. The bizarre sight turned plenty of heads.

“I saw it on the walk over, but I didn’t know what it was,” a woman said.

“It seems pretty, I don’t know, daring,” a man said.

When members of the Emergency Service Unit went to the top of the bridge later in the morning to document the scene, they found two 20-foot by 11-foot flags on each tower, which appeared to be American flags with stars and stripes that had been bleached white.

Police also found large aluminum pans that had been affixed with zip-ties to cover up the lights that normally illuminate the flags.

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[twomp]

I think this picture symbolizes it best.